Terms
The words that make up the term CE.
Common Era
What is a synonym?
Words that share the same meaning.
What were the Pyramids created for?
They were tombs for Egyptian royalty.
What is an inference?
Making a guess at something based on prior knowledge.
What is the name given to long stories told by Vikings to teach lessons?
Sagas.
The words that make up the term BCE.
Before common Era
What is a noun?
A word that represents a person, place or thing.
The main purposes of the Nile River.
Providing defence, trade routes and fresh water for drinking and farming.
Write a synonym for happy.
Glad, joyful, excited......
Which Viking created the first settlement in Greenland?
Eric the Red
The name of a source from the time being studied.
Primary sources
What is a verb?
An action or 'doing' word.
The Egyptian god of the underworld.
Osiris.
Write an example of personification.
The wall stood tall.
The ocean walked back with the tide.
The name of the trickster god who murdered Balder.
Loki.
The name of a source talking about a past event.
Secondary source.
What is personification?
Giving a non human thing, human qualities. (The sun smiled down on us)
What was the name of the harvesting season?
Shemu.
Use an adjective in a sentence.
The blue sky.
What is the name of the Viking runic alphabet?
Futhark
The words that make up the term AD.
Anno Domini (Year of our lord)
What is an adjective?
A descriptive word. (The RED flower)
A large statue of a creature with a womans head and a lions body.
A Sphinx.
What did Rumpelstiltskin help the young woman to do in his story?
Turn straw into gold.
What was the name of the island monastery that the Vikings first raided?
Lindisfarne